Coffee…Nectar of the Gods…
Greg leaned back onto the couch in the break room. He had just made up a new pot of his special coffee, and was enjoying the first cup. Well, actually he had already enjoyed the first cup, and the second, and now was on the third. He would soon be enjoying the fourth if someone else didn't come in and take a cup for themselves.
The peace and quite of the room was nice, but it was soon interrupted by Warrick breezing in. Greg looked over at him, as he made his way towards the coffee pot.
"Hey Greg." Warrick said looking over at the lab tech.
"Hey Warrick." Greg replied back taking a sip.
"So, what's new with you?"
Greg had to hold himself back from spitting that sip out. Warrick never asked how Greg was doing. He asked Greg if he had his fiber analysis done, or the DNA match, or where was Grissom? Never, what's new with you?
"Uh, Nothing." Greg replied swallowing. "What about you?"
"Same here. God, we need more exciting lives." Warrick stated, taking a sip of the coffee, and then going back for more. "You know what? You and I should go hit a movie after shift."
At this, all of the coffee in Greg's mouth was spat all over the break room floor.
"What?" Greg stammered.
"Yeah, you and me. Anything good playing?" Warrick turned away from Greg and walked over to the table where the newspaper sat. "Hey, what about that new Horror movie?"
Greg was still trying to process the scene between them. "You want to go to the movies with me?"
"Is that idea so far fetched?" Warrick asked, looking over the newspaper in his hands.
That's it; Greg knew something had been slipped into the coffee earlier.
"You know, you and I should just sneak out now. Who's going to notice that we are gone?" Warrick asked, as he made his way towards the door.
"I will." Catherine stated as she pushed opened the break room door and came in like a wrecking ball. "Where do you think you two are going?" she demanded.
"Greg and I are going to go to the movies." Warrick said proudly.
"You and Greg?" Catherine asked.
"Yeah, do you have a problem with that?"
"You can go to the movies with Greg, but you won't go out to breakfast with me?" Catherine stated, taking a step towards Warrick as if she was going to slap him.
"You're going out to breakfast?" Grissom wondered as he stuck his head in the door. "Catherine, you said you would come and talk to me later, and then we'd go to that scene, remember?"
"Oh, I remember all right." Catherine said rolling her eyes.
"Remember what?" Sara asked, as she came up behind Grissom and entered into the break room. She walked over and took a coffee mug and pored herself some coffee.
"Grissom wants to declare his love for me." Catherine grumbled.
"What?" Sara shrieked, dropping the coffee mug, and it shattered into a million pieces on the floor.
"Yeah, that's pretty much the same reaction I had when Grissom talked to me." Catherine said shrugging her shoulders.
"You already talked to her?" Sara continued to shriek.
"Sara, be quite! There are people trying to work here!" Grissom yelled at her, and now Sara looked as if she was going to slap Grissom.
"You've totally forgotten about me, and have moved onto Catherine??" Grissom's reprimand didn't seem to stop Sara from raising her voice.
"Sara, we never were anything!" Grissom shot back.
"Because you didn't know what to do about THIS!"
"About what?" Nick said as he walked into the break room.
"Grissom doesn't know how to deal with me and my feelings." Sara said, a little calmer.
"Oh. That's too bad." Nick said as he looked around the room. "So, what are y'all doing here? And Sara, I still need to talk to you."
"That's great Nick, but I have to talk to Grissom." Sara replied.
"But I need to talk to Catherine." Grissom stated.
"But I need to have a talk with Warrick." Catherine declared.
"But Greg and I are going to the movies, so can this wait till after we get back?" Warrick asked.
"What?" Nick asked, "Why are you going to the movies?"
"Because you've all gone INSANE!" Greg yelled, jumping to his feet. The five heads in the room turned to look at him.
"Huh?" Grissom asked, "We've all gone insane?"
"YES." Greg said. "You've all gone mad, and for the entire night, Nick has been chasing Sara, Sara's been after Grissom, Grissom has wanted to talk to Catherine, Catherine has been giving Warrick death massages, and now Warrick and I are going to go out on a DATE!"
"Death massages?" Grissom wondered aloud. "You never gave me any death massages." He said turning to Catherine.
"A date Greg?" Sara laughed, "That's so cute!"
"Fine! You know what? I give up." Greg threw his hands into the air. "You're all insanely in love with each other but the favor is not returned in any case." Pause, "and did I really say that Warrick and I are going out on a date?"
"If you want to call it that Greg." Warrick said, winking at Greg.
"Oh, this can't be happening…No, no, no noooooooo…."
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"Should we wake him?"
"Nah, he looks cute asleep."
"So innocent and peacefully dreaming."
"Just wait till he wakes up."
"Sara, you know you love Greg just as much as any of us."
"I still say we go and get Catherine's makeup bag and have a little fun."
"Ah, well then next time you fall asleep and start drooling on the couch we'll come over and tickle you."
"Don't you touch me Stokes!"
"Children, do you want to keep it quite so we don't wake the sleeping baby?"
"Sorry, mom."
"There, now we can all get along and be one big happy family."
"One very happy dysfunctional family."
"We could be the Osbornes."
"We could have our own TV show!"
"Would you really want that?"
"Oh, well, you're right. The camera adds ten pounds."
"You'd still be lovely Sara."
"Aw, Grissom's flirting with Sara again."
"Again? Were they flirting in the first place?"
"Now that you mention it, no, they weren't."
"Could we not discuss my personal life here in the break room?"
"Is that a touchy subject Grissom?"
"Let's just say I don't want this to be the topic of conversation at the water cooler."
"What do you want the topic to be then? Catherine and I?"
"What? You and Catherine?"
"I'm joking Nick. Chill."
"Hey, around here, I never know who is joking and who's not."
"Yah, like the time you fell asleep and started moaning and talking about someone named 'Bruce' in your sleep."
"Watch it Warrick."
"Or the time I heard you singing the Dixie Chicks in the shower?"
"Oh, that's below the belt Sara."
"No, he deserves it."
"Really, and what have I done to you?"
"Lots of stuff."
"Name one."
"Last Halloween you dropped a bunch of spiders into my bag."
"Sara, that was Grissom."
"You dropped the spiders??"
"I thought you would have then brought them to me and we could have discussed them. Some of them were really beautifully done. Looked like the real thing."
"Doing real good with the subtle hints there Grissom."
"Thanks Catherine, I'm doing my best."
"I know you are."
"hey, I'm trying too."
"With what Nick?"
"With…eh…"
"Even you don't know. That's good Nicky."
"Hey, I'm hungry, what can I say?"
"I'm hungry too. Any one up for breakfast?"
"As long as you're paying."
"Yeah, let's all go for breakfasts."
"No, I was thinking we could all go for beers or something seeing that it is six in the morning."
"You want a beer Sara?"
"Can you not tell when I'm being sarcastic?"
"No, it's seeped into your normal habits so much that I can never tell any more."
"Oh thanks Nick, you're being a real gentleman right now."
"I know I am. Let my get the door for you Miss Sidle"
"You're not getting any more browning points Nick."
"I wasn't expecting any."
"Hey come on Grissom, you coming?"
Greg opened his eyes to see Grissom standing next to the couch.
"Want to come for breakfast?" Grissom asked as Greg sat up.
Greg shook his head, "I have a date with Warrick. Wait, do I? Now I can't remember…" Greg then realized what had just come out of his mouth.
"Oh." Grissom said, giving Greg a very odd look.
"No, wait…No, I don't have a date with Warrick. Yeah, sure, I'll come. How much funnier can this day get?" Greg said as he stood up and stretched.
"With all of us around, it could be hysterical." Grissom replied.
"Oh, that is true Grissom. So true." Greg grabbed his coat off of the rack, and followed Grissom out the door.
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Well, that's the end of my little story. I hope you all enjoyed it, because it certainly was fun to write. Hey, if it keeps me out of trouble, anything can be good, right? Right. So, now tell me what you think but hitting that little button down there and really making my day! Thanks again for all the reviews I have received so far : -D Tootles for now until I write again…
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